hanselines
English
Noun
hanselines pl (plural only)
- (historical) A sort of breeches
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Chaucer to this entry?)
- 1905-06, Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir Nigel
- The old tunic, overtunic and cyclas were too sad and simple for the new fashions, so now strange and brilliant cotehardies, pourpoints, courtepies, paltocks, hanselines and many other wondrous garments, particoloured or diapered, with with looped, embroidered or escalloped edges, flamed and glittered round the King.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for hanselines in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)